Ancestress (Bell Version)

[Verse 1: Björk]

My skull is my cathedral

Where this matrimort takes place

When I was a girl, she sang for me

In falsetto lullabies with sincerity

I thank her for her integrity

[Chorus 1: Björk, Björk & Sindri Eldon]

My ancestress' clock is ticking

Her once vibrant rebellion is fading

I am her hope-keeper

Assure hope is there

At, at all times

[Verse 2: Björk]

My ancestress has left all manners

Her pulsating skin rebelling

The doctors she despised

Placed a pacemaker inside her

[Chorus 2: Björk & Sindri Eldon]

When you're out of time

Oh, how you look back changes

Did you punish us for leaving?

Are you sure we hurt you?

Was it just not "living"?

[Verse 3: Björk]

She had idiosyncratic sense of rhythm

Dyslexia, the ultimate freeform

She invents words and adds syllables

Hand-writing, language all her own

[Chorus 3: Björk & Sindri Eldon]

I don't have that story in my mouth

When you die, you bring with you what you've given

[Verse 4: Björk]

The machine of her breathed all night

While she rested

Revealed her resilience

And then it, it didn't

[Chorus 4: Björk & Sindri Eldon]

You see with your own eyes

But hear with your mother's

There's fear of being absorbed

By the other

[Verse 5: Björk]

By now, we share the same flesh

As much as I tried to escape it

This is no mediocre debris

My ancestress this is

[Chorus 5: Björk & Sindri Eldon]

The odour of our final parting

Those have been

The perfumes of separation

For centuries

The perfumes of separation

For centuries

Ancestress

[Verse 6: Björk]

Nature wrote this psalm

It expands this realm

Translucent skin let go of

A cold palm embalmed